Answer by Kellycheeseburger10. Confidence votes 86. When a light is shined into an eye the pupil contracts gets smaller because the eye doesn't need all the light being presented to it. If the light is taken away the pupil dilates. PS like the eye gets bigger in the dark.
The ancient Egyptians did not know the hard setting lime plaster invented by the Greeks, but used instead a mixture of gypsum and quartz with small amounts of lime [5] when working with stone.This was not as disastrous in the dry climate of Egypt as it would have been under wetter conditions.ost of the ancient Egyptian buildings have disappeared leaving no trace. Built of sun baked bricks made of Nile mud and straw, houses, palaces and city walls crumbled when they stopped being looked after.
EGYPTIAN MUD BRICKS. 1  The absence of rain, the scarcity of wood and an abundance of sunshine made adobe the preferred building material. 2  In every location during a building project, brick molds (see picture below) of equal size were used which were between about 45 to 30 cm in length and 20 to 15 cm in width.